3. Country Text

Once you get your head around this powerful feature you can really make your visitor
feel at home and confident in your site.

You can provide a block of text (or html code) that is SPECIFICALLY tailored for
visitors from specific countries.

Assuming your web page has the Script Tag link (see Setup Menu) inserted correctly
at the bottom of the page all you need to do to access the Country Text feature
of the YourCurrencyConverter.com system is add one extra piece of HTML to your page,
where you would like the text or html to appear:

<SPAN id=countrytext></SPAN>

The above span tag will be automatically found by our system and replaced with the
correct text for your website visitor.

3.1 Country Specific Text

To use this option enter text or valid HTML in the text box to the left and select
the countries that you wish this text to be displayed for from the list on the right
(use the CTRL Key to select more than one item, or to select ALL the items and remove
individual items as in figure 3.1 select AFGHANISTAN then scroll down to ZIMBABWE
and select it whilst holding the SHIFT key down. You can then DESELECT items by
clicking them whilst using the CTRL key.

You can combine this tool with our country name and country flag tools (with or
without using them independently) by adding placeholders within your text.

Available Placeholders:

**countryname**
**largeflag**
**smallflag**
**tinyflag**

Example

Take a look at figure 3.1 below.

Figure 3.1 Country Specific Text.

The settings in figure 3.1 have been configured with a powerful, but simple object
in mind.

If a visitor based in the United States views your website then where you put the
code: <SPAN id=countrytext></SPAN> will be replaced with the following:
(notice the demo use of HTML with the <b> for BOLD)

We are based in the USA. Shipping in the US is FREE!

If another visitor is viewing your website at exactly the same time but they are
based in the United Kingdom they will see this:

We are based in the USA but we ship to: United Kingdom by UPS.

In fact EVERY country other than the United States and the US Outlying Islands have
been selected, so anyone from anywhere in the world OTHER than the US will see the
UPS message. All visitors from the US will see the FREE shipping message.

This is a very simple example, the only limit to this tool is your imagination.

3.2 Default Country Text

Figure 3.2 Default Country Text.

From time to time (less than 0.2%) our system is unable to recognise the geographic
location of an IP address and therefore we are unable to determine which country
a visitor is from.

The Default Text is a way of handling that situation. If your visitors location
cannot be determined the <SPAN id=countrytext></SPAN> will be replaced
with the html or text contents of the Default Text box in figure 3.2

For instance if a visitor to your website arrived and our system was unable to determine
their location, the follow result would take place (assuming you had set up the
system as per figures 3.1 and 3.2):

All shipping within the US is FREE. We ship to the rest of the world by UPS.

Notice that we don't use the **countryname** or **largeflag** within the Default
Text, because we are unable to determine their Country.

Remember: These are just examples, it doesn't have to be shipping costs.
You might want to ensure the visitors closest telephone contact number appears at
the top of a list if you have offices all over the world, or perhaps you'd like
to show specific products to different markets (snow boots to Norway and Sun hats
to Mexico!). Anything you can code in HTML can be used. If you create something
you think is an interesting use - let us know!